The Sun. — London, England, 1838-02-19 00:00:00

so, in the same ratio, is he bound to prove the sincerity Of his professions by the earnestness with which he enforces them. The Ballot is no indifferent or milk and-water change. Lord John Russell has laboured, successfully, to convince us that it drags great changes after it. A. measure which is but prefatory to Universal Suffrage, as the Noble Lord has shown, :must be one which he deeply dreads and reprobates, and to the discountenance of which and of its sup porters he is bound by every pledge of honour, conscience, and regard for his country's good. Then, we ask, how comes it that Lord John Russell, a Cabinet Minister, with so decided, and, we must add, not unnatural, lead among his twelve or thirteen col leagues—how comes it that, taking the prominent part which he has done in the Ministerial resistance to Mr. Grote, he has suffered himself to be bearded in a man ne; so offensive by subordinate placemen Bolding diet: at his will, who dare to divide against him, their c hi e f, on a question vital to the Monarchy ? Will Sir Hussey Vivian be dismissed or not ? Has Sir Hussey Vivian, or has he not, been yet dismissed ?—for it is full time that he should have been ; or, if not, that Lord John Russell himself, and Sir John Hobhouse, who are both as individuals men of spirit and honour, should wipe out the insult offered to each of them by the unpunished contumacy of the Master-General of the Ordnawle. Having seen, however, what all have seen for some yl'ars past, the paltry bargains in the way of selfish and trickling compromise, by which the Melbourne Cabinet has prolonged to this hour its rickety existence, we confess that we have not given much attention to the rumours of resignations, dismis sals, &c., which since the night of Thursday have been zurrent.every where. Should the four Vivians prove too formidable to be exasperated against a mean and tottering Cabinet, to which the whisper of the bold Sir Hussey has no doubt been carefully transmitted—" They durst not turn me out, there are Jour of us,"—no ob server of what 'Whigs in their extremity will submit to can be at all surprised. Should the Cabinet this evening give its full support to the covert scheme of Universal Suffrage—disguised as an attack upon the rate-paving clauses of the Reform Bill—no man in his senses can be surprised. Should Sir William Alolesivorth, after threatening so largely, listen to the plausible equivocations of Mr. Edward Ellice, and after being smonthed down by that meddling person, relinquish at the last hour his much-vaunted exposure of the imbecile worthlessness of our Colonial-Office, no man who has witnessed the accomodating pliancy of Radicals, when properly appealed to by the gen tlemen of Downing -street, need be in the least sur prised. For our parts, we shall wonder at nothing, but at the conscientious or upright discharge of any one public duty by Whigs or Radicals ; nor shall we consider any thing worth a moment's exultation but the rescue of the Queen and Crown of England from the revolutionary fierceness of one faction, and the sordid feebleness of another.—Times. The Ballot project is alleged by the Whig-Radi cal Journals to be growing in favour with the public. The ground, on which this allegation rests, is the gradual increase of the minorities in the House of Commons, when divisions on the questions occur. That the Ballot is demanded with greater pertinacity, now, than formerly, by the most noisy portion of the present constituencies, is true ; but it is equally true, that the vast majority of the public regard the Ballot scheme with regularly increasing dislike. The Ballot is one of the instruments, with which the sect of " po litical philosophers"—the Benthams and Ricardos— has sought to work out its particular ends. And what are the ends of the party, of whom these men have been the organs, and by whom they are recognised as law-givers ? The great end of the party in question is the establishment of the supremacy of capital. The desire of the men who compose the party, is to regu late all the movements of society, by a reference to the operations of money-power. These men treat a religious establishment, simply, as an affair of money. They regard the Crown, as a bauble that " costs" a great deal. They look upon an Aristocracy—loaded it may be, with the honours of a thousand years—sim ply as a congregation of men who absorb the rents of land, and who overshadow the pretensions of mercan tile wealth. They treat the poor, simply, as machines designed by nature to be worked as hard, and to be sustained upon as little, as possible. The champions of the money-power are, in short, engaged in a deadly war against the privileges of every other class—against all institutions that have their foundation in high moral or religious feeling—against every influence which mi litates against the despotism of Mammon. The cham pions of the money-power labour, night and day, to cheapen religion, to cheapen Government, to cheapen labour—to render the honours of Aristocracy, and the , prerogative of majesty "cheap" in the eyes of the mass of mankind. The champions of the money-power ;—a section of the middle classes, limited in number, but en ergetic, subtle, watchful ; these are the only advocates of the Ballot ; and they advocate the Ballot, only as the means of enabling them to give effect to their conspi racy against the Aristocracy, on the one hand, and against the vast body of labourers, on the orher. The labouring masses regard the Ballot with abhorrence. They complain, and with justice, that the Aristocracy of the country has abandoned them on many occasions; but they are willing, nevertheless, to support the Aristocracy, at all imaginable hazards, against the Malthusians and Marnmonites—the deadly enemies. at once, of Aristocracy and of labour. The Malthu sian money-worshippers are gradually getting the whole power of the country into their hands. The increasing majorities on the Ballot are merely one out of ten thousand indications of the fact. Nothing in truth, can arrest the progress of the party, except a cordial union betwixt the landed Aristocracy and the labour ing classes. If the landed Aristocracy will consent to save the labouring poor from new Poor Law Bills, and from all the other schemes for beating down the price of labour, the labouring poor will, in requital, preserve to the Aristocracy their honours and their lands. The bargain would be a fair one. If the Aristocracy shall refuse to enter into it—the consequences of the refusal will recoil upon themselves.—Morning Herald. Our able and destructive contemporary the Spectator has a very pointed and powerful article in his number of yesterday, headed " The Disinterested Opposition." As a consistent political polemic, the Spectator may be pardoned for professing to disbelieve the fact of a disinterestedness of which the annals of old-fashioned or of new-fangled Whiggery present no parallel ; and the obvious and undeniable existence of which in the Conservative Opposition in the severest satire on the unprincipled conspiracy which occasioned the resigna tion of Sir Robert Peel and his friends, as well as on the hungry and servile spirit which leads nineteen twentieths of the so-called Liberals to yoke them selves to the triumphal car of Lord John Russell, whom they distrust as a Minister and despise as a man, and by whom, in return, they arc feared and scorned, and favoured and fed, as dirty, discreditable, and dangerous auxiliaries. The Radical expectants who support the Administration and batten on the contempt of the Whig oligarchs, must he blind in deed if they perceive not that they are considered by their 'Whig allies as mere Parliamentary utensils, to be used when necessary and discarded as soon as the wants of their employers will permit. Some few, whose sense' or whose sensibility is more acute, have made the mortifying discovery, and denounce the detected cheat accordingly ; but the mass, too hungry to be fastidious, and too contemptible to be impatient of contempt, follow him still, and, hound-like, receive with equal complacency his kicks and his victuals. This omnivorous appetite for all the garbage of personal and political humilia tion seems to us as disgusting as it is characteristic, and not less calculated to call forth the indignant scorn of every honest independent Radical than is " the disinterested Opposition of the Tories t o excite that incredulous wonder which is the un conscious expression of involuntary praise." But political idiosvncracies are as unaccountable as indi vidual t astes . " Non omnibus unum est quod placet ; hie spines colligit ills rosas." At the call of duty the th orny seat o f " the disinterested Opposition is as welcome to an honest " fort' as the rose covered b enc h es o f t h e T re asury to a trimming \V big or a needy Radical. " Tousles gouts sont dans la nature, ceux qu'on a sont les tneilleurs. How ever, without resting our explanation of the enigma which has so puzzled our contemporary on " wise saws and modern instances," we shall gm such a solution of the riddle, though not as speaking with authority, as may, perhaps, satisfy the curious and convince the sceptical, who are disposed to doubt the prudence or distrust the motives of the self denying policy of the Conservative Opposition. That a " Tory minority, more than three hundred strong, in the House of Commons" should " shrink from a direct assault on the Whig Administra don," may be admitted to be, politically ••pealting, an act of " unprecedented forbearance." " The oldest and most consistent organ of Toryism in the daily Press"—thus truly does our Radic:ll Contemporary designate the Morning Post—" had already ascribed this forbearance to a pure and prudent patriotism on the part of Sir Robert Peel and his friends." That such a motive should appear fantastic and incredible to Whigs and Whig-Radicals was natural—was, in deed, inevitable. How should, how could, they be lieve in the influence and agency of motives which had no counterpart in their own consciousness—no parallel in their own practice? But from the Spectator, or independent Radicals, whom, though pestilent politi cians, we believe to err in honesty, we might have ex pected a more candid interpretation of a forbearance so ostensibly disinterested. Ironically assuming, how ever, that the Tories are content " to rule the country from the Opposition benches, regardless of patronage, careless of quarter-day," our Contemporary goes on to say— " But it will still remain a question with those who cannot implicitly credit this assumption of rare disinterestedness, whence the reluctance to achieve power proceeds? And such unbelievers in Tory virtue will find it difficult to con clude otherwise than that the Tories abstain from attempting to displace the Whigs, either because they fear defeat, and are conscious of their own inability to carry on the Government when in °trice ; or that they are perfectly satisfied with the Whig method of working out the Conservative policy." We unhesitatingly repudiate both the alternatives proposed by our Contemporary as from the unbelievers in Tory virtue. The Tories do not abstain from ousting the Whigs either from apprehension or mis carriage in the attempt, or inability to carry on the Government when in office, nor because they are per fectly satisfied with the Whig method of working out the Conservative policy. The latter supposition is a gratuitous absurdity, seeing that the policy worked out by the Whigs is any thing but Conservative. Witness their systematic prostitution of the patronage of the Crown to the enemies of the Royal family, the enemies of the Established Church, and the enemies of British influence and British connection. Witness their systematic support of whole-hog revolutionists and quasi traitors at the late ge neral election : witness the infamous oligarchical conspiracy by which they forced themselves into the Council Chamber of their late Sovereign— witness the intrigues by which they monopo lise the Royal ear. The former supposition, that the Tories are unable to expel the Whigs or to sup ply their places when expelled, is little less untenable than the former. Had the Tories been merely an oli garchical faction like the Whigs, instead of being, as they are, a great national party—had party success, not national advantage, been their object—had they descended to imitate the infamous and unprincipled scheme by which the Whigs overthrew the Govern ment of Sir Robert Peel, what was to have prevented their ousting the sybarite Melbourne, the sleepy Glenelg, the pettyfogging thimblerigger Russell, and their Cabinet " Helps," on the Canada question, or, more recently, on that of the Ballot ? In both in stances they would have commanded the sympathies and the assistance of the Radicals (a few traders from taste like Mr. E. Bulwer only excepted). Had this, the true policy of the Machiavelian Whigs, been adopted by the Tories the spurious and epicene things that now occupy the Treasury bench would have been not only defeated and dispersed but extin guished. The Tories did not imitate the unconstitu tional and factious example of the Whigs. In both instances the Ministers and their men happened to be more or less right—and the Tories were too proud and too generous to make use of those lapses into right as levers by which to upset the Cabinet of thimble riggers. That the sneers of our whole hog Contem porary are without sting or point is more than we will ' maintain. The reluctance of the Tories, however, to return to office under existing circumstances may be easily explained, and almost, if not altogether, justified by the circumstances under which they quitted office ; and by the systematised prostitution of patriotic and public to party and personal purposes in the Whig and Whig-Radical sections of the House of Commons. Sir Robert Peel resigned because a combination of Radical dupes and Papists schemers united under the banner of " all classes of Reformers" to effectuate the selfish and factious ob jects of those Whig oligarchs whose practice and whose principle it has ever been, and is, to excite and mislead the people, in order to acquire the means of dictating to the Sovereig n—succeeded in placing him in a manority in the House of Commons. That something of a Quixotic and exaggerated deference to what he conceived to be the true principle of the Con stitution may not on that occasion have betrayed the patriotic Tory chief into a premature surrender of the reins of Government is more than we shall take upon ourselves to maintain. At all events, the same un principled confederacy still exists—numerically di minished indeed, by the result of the late elections, but still sufficiently powerful and unprincipled to pre sent an organised and formidable impediment to the steady and consistent following up of a constitutional and Conservative line of policy. To a Whig expectant Prime Minister a difficulty of this nature would be a matter of derision rather than respect. He might be, in deed, a mere political puppet, alternately bullied by his friends and rescued by his enemies ; but, what matters that ? He would still be Prime Minister of England—he would still be the dispenser of stars and garters to his aristocratical accomplices—of loaves and fishes to his subaltern confederates ; he would still abuse the confidence, and enjoy the hospitality of the unsuspect:ne, Sovereign he betrayed ; nor would hie political impotence be any drawback on his personal enjoyments.—Probatunz est. But Sir Robert Peel is neither personally " a porous de grege Epicuri," nor politically an impotent and intriguing profligate. The Conservative leader disdains the official trappioge which would condemn him to be alternately the play thing and the " utensil" of his friends and of his foes. If Sir Robert Peel take office it will be with the objects of a patriot--not of a partisan or a parasite. Sir Robert Peel is a statesman, nor is he ambitious to merge the character in the frivolous pursuits. and emasculating enjoyments of a courtier. Sir Robert Peel would be in fact, as well as name, the leader of the house of Commons—the guide and the guar dian of his country—the Minister, not the Com plaisant, of his Sovereign. Sir Robert Peel would be all that England knows Lord Melbourne ought to be, and is not ; and the reverse of all that Lord John Russell is, and has ever been. The line which divides the " posse" from the " esse" in this respect is already little more than imaginary. Feslina lente is, in such a crisis, pride as well as prudence. The mischievous effects of Whig domination (if a double servitude deserve the name) arc already neutralised by Tory ascendancy. Precipitation, however pure and laudable the motive, might spoil all. Let us wait yet a little, and the duped and deluded Radicals will desire nothing better than to unite with the Tories to extinguish the Whip. The oligarchical and odious faction of the Whigs once disposed of, the two great national parties, the Con servatives and Republicans, might then fight out, on the floor, or in the field, the battle that will decide the destinies of England. Before this final combat be commenced, patriotism, pride, and prudence, all com bine, as it seems to us, in prescribing to Sir R. Peel and his Conservative array this rule of conduct—give the Whig rogues line enough, and they will hang themselves.- Morning Post. THE WEATHER.—" Oh, never mind the Wea ther," says the old song ; but the weather will make you mind it, and in regard to it, we have to remark, that it has lately been of such a character in this neighbourhood as to com pletely contradict, and set at naught, the predictions of all the astronomers, astrologers, and almanack makers in the King dom ; fairly proving their " Weather Guides" to be " blind guides."— York Courant. A report having appeared in several of the Journals of the Prince de Talleyrand being i n a d angerous state o f health we are happy to be able to contradict this statement. The health of this distinguished diplomatist is as good as it has been for some time past. Ig :SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 183 S. PRICES OF CANALS,DOCK STOCKS, ASSURANCE COMPANIES,&e. &e. &c. LONDON, FRIDAY, FEB. 16. Number Di ridend Price of per CANALS. per P a id. Share altres. Annum. s. 1,766 7 pet cent. Ashton and Oldham.- Average 97/. Ns. oh. 135 1,452 41. Ashby-de_le-Zoitch Average 1110.0 h. 65 1,2011 11:0ingstoke 1 0 14 . 110 5 . 1,005 5,•. Brecknock and Ahergavennt , ...... 8 .. 1 .1 : 5 1 8z 1 ... a. s I T . 2 11: 1 1 1 ) 8,000 1-10,ah. 9, Os. Viroingban,, I.loth share 4.000 D 634) :0. it,o at! 1.,' verlbool Junct...losl. sit. 100 pal :O5 lir ol aewater add Taunton ....1001. sh. all pd 04 4.01) .(1 rheltner mad Blackwater 100/. sh. 102 NY) 48 , C tventry 'OO/.sh. 700 4.54 5 ... ..... Croydon • Average 3 11. `.:s. 11 1 41. sh. 3 2,0600 4'. C..., Didley 6:10 7.. Derby IGO/. eh. IE3 2 1 ,000 4 per cent. Arittine and Mayne 3,575 f 2/. Ellesmere and Chester Average 1331. sh. $7 031 404. Free/ash 1001.10. 700 1,207 541. Firth and Clyste s t venire 4/40/.101. sh. 585 1 1,00 12/, Grand Junctic - 1001. sh. 2. .. 2,ce9i 11. Grand Union 1001. sh 25 I 9s,,, S' on ill '. 4/. per c - ent. ‘ l ' .) r iro d ( S ol u t . t rr to e t y lai) Loan - ''''''''''''' i rgl i i. " 20 70 :1,e146 Grand V, es! ern 600 131.125. c.d. Glarmirganshire, Average cost 1721. I 3r. 4.1. 230 749 los. Grantham 0,233 :U. Os. I futiderstit. id Average 371. G.,.4.1, sh. 37 100 Kensington 100 sh all pd. 10 2 5.328 11. ss. Kennet ;aid Avon. Average ..,),. ISs. 10d. sh. 20 2,997} 24.4. Lied s and Liven 001 10 01. sh. 00 5454 131. Leicester l4 sh. .105 1 , 5 97 41. 10e. Leicester ali4 Nortltempton... Avc r. 03 /. l ira . 91 2,400 140. Menmouthstiire 1001 .sh. 20,) 150 10/. Marlton Mowbray 100/. eh. 200 500 270. Mersey anal Irwell lO l l/ sh. 565 3,000 11. 10s. Macclesfield 100/ sh. all pd. 50 247 171. Neath 1,7F6 3441. Oxford 2,400 51. Peak Forest 1 , 415 I2s. A ve rage S• 5/. sh. 111 5,669 61. per cent. I r; le n g c e h n d t a ' i s e (or London) A A v v et e; g. .. e 3 . 3 .2. / .b l '''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' 431;32( j 500 31. Shropshire LaS!. sh. 138 800 9/. 10s. Somerset Coal 1501. sh. 151 f 3,600/. 4i percent. Ditto Lock Fund Stock lO/. lOs. sh. lit 700 401. Stafford and Worcester l4Ol. sh. 710 500 91, Shrewsbury lO5/.lh. 030 300 9/. Stourbridge .. ... -1451. sh. 330 3,647 21. to. St ratford-on- A vott...Average 791.95. ftd. sh. 54) 533 Id!. Swansea 100/ sh. 030 5,702 11. 15$. Severn and Wye :and Railway ...Av. 351. sh. '27 I,COOt sit. 321. los. Treat and Mersey, I share 100/. sh. 5 5 6,119 Thames '..nd sledway... Aver. NI. ss. dd. sh. 2 I ,000sh.1 150 Warwick sad Birmingham lOOl.BlO 165 0032;1.3 11.. Warwick and Napt lOO/. sh. 195 11,000 41.05, Worcest 'r and Birrningharn...Av.76/.00. sh. 70} 5,000 'lss. Wilts art, Berke .. Average 1)71. 10s. Bd. sh. 22 800 31, Wyrley and Essington 1251. sh 75 , „, „ Wisbeach lO5/. sin 45 905 4. Wey and Arun llOl. sh. 244 DOCKS. t.OOO pr 1 100/.15. 1,063 0 3p. e Commercial 498,667,11. 6 per ct. East India Stock 3.0311,310:1. 506.p.ct. London Stock Ditto 'clouds 1,100,000/. 4N. p. ct. West India Stock 2,20.1 '2l. 1 9s. Bristal 68,3244 51. percent. Ditto Notes, various amounts 1.352,752 5 percent. St. Katharine Stock 500,000 4! per oent Ditto Bonds 200.000 ~ aer cen. , Ditto Bonds for 10 years Shoreham Harbour .... Deptford Pier OOl. sh. 3/. BRIDGES. 1,600 ICs. Hammersm.o• 5Ol. sh. 1 7,231 Southwark, Old Av. 031. 2s. &I. sh. 1,700 1/. 15s. Ditto, New, of it per cent .... ...... 501. sh. 1 5,000 ... ...... W a t e rloo 5,000 193. Bd. Ditto, Old Annuities of 61. COL pd 11 5,000 Ifs. 141. Ditto, New Ditto of 71 40/. pd If 30,00411. 51. per cent. Ditto Bonds 11! 5,141 17s Vauxhall Average 701. 10s. 2d. sh. IS AS‘“.JRANCE COMPANIES. 2,000 31105 Albion 5001. sh. 50/. pd SO 50,000 f 5 per cent. Alliance, British & Foreign 1001 . sh. 10 1/. pd ISt 1 and 15s. 50,000 6 per cent. Ditto, Marine 1001. sh. 51. pd St 24,000 I/. per sh. Atlas 50/. sh. 51. pd 14 L'2oolsh. 5/. Birmingham t ire 2501. sh. 55/. pd 107 t 20,000 41. per cent. British Fire . 2501. sh. 501. pd 42 12,000 61. per cent. British Commercial 501, sh. Si. pd ei 5,000 5/. percent. Clerical, sledieal,&c. Life, ICol.sh. 2110 s pd 4 4,000 21 lils County 1001. sh. 101. pd 42 20,000 53. Eagle 5Ol. sh. 51. pd 5f on . f 5 per cent./ Economic L it e lOOOl. s h. 2501 . p d 275 "'"' land 301 bs. 2,271 225. percent. European Li r. .0/. sh. all pd 21 50,000 2s. Ditto, New 0 0!. sh. 21. pd If 1,000,0004 71. per ct. Globe Stock 151 20,000 51• Guardian lOO/. sh. 2711 pd 33f 40,000 Os. Cd. Hope 50/. sh. 51. pd 517 2,400 51. 7s. 61. Imperial Fire 542)/. sh. 50/. pd 126 i 7,500 9s. Imperial Tate.. 1001. sh. 101, pd 11l 13,455 4/. ner cent. Indemnity Marine 100/. O. Si. pi 20 2,020 31 lOs Kest Fire 501. chi all pd 12 31. Ditto Life 10,000 16s. Law Life 1001. sh. 10/. pd '2sf S,OUU lt)s. London, Fire 251. sh. 121. 104. pd 15f 3,900 10s. Landon, Ship 0 51. sh. 10/. IN. pd 154 30,000 5/. per cent. Palladium Lite 50/. sh. 21. pd 4/ Ss ail 50,000 4/. per cent. Prottutor Fite 2O l. 01 . 24 pd 17,0 d 2,500 11. Provident Lite lOO/. sh. 10/. pd 00 100,000 55. Rock Life,.... 'W. sh. 11. pd 61 089,2201 51. per cent. Royal Exchange Stock... 125 6,000 1 per cent. University Life lOO l. sh. 51. pd 5 50,009 4 per cent. United Kingdom Life 2l. pd JOINT STOCK BANKS 25,000 S percent. Agric. and Comm. of Ireland 251. *h. 10/. pd 14 5,000 Australasia 404 sh. 40/. pd 59 10,000 10 per cent. Bank of Bittningham sel. eh. 101. pd 13 10,000 10 per cent. Birmingham Bank 5O/. sh. 5/. pd 16. 30,000 5 per cent. London and Westminster...lool sh. 20/. lid 21 :1,000 4 per cent. Lancaster 100/. shn eq. pd Ni 25,000 Liverpool 1001 sh. 101. pd 21 50,000 71 per vent Manchester and Liverpool] 100/.lh. 15/ pd 21 Dit 20,0011 7 per cent. Manchester. 100/.2h. 25/ pd I 20,000 ... ...... Provincial Bank of I reland.,.loo/. sh. '25/. p 4 3 20, 00 National Bank of Ireland ...5 , 0. oh. 17F. pd 1 10,000 5 per cent. National Provincial Eng. ...1001. sh. 351. pd : 10,000 Gloucestershire 5O/. sh. 101. pd ' 6,000 leper cent. Hampshire 501. sh. Si. pd GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES. 2,500 11 S.ir 54 Bath 2O!. sh. 111. pd 1,000 British 4Ol. sh. 161. pd 5,000 t r i' l L ercent l Ditto Provincial .401. sh. 10 d a Bs. ss. 9211 51 10s Birmingham 5Ol. sh. 1,250 21 Os Bristol 2O ' sh. 1,500 3/ 10. Brighton "01 . sh. 750 31 les Ditto, New 2,471 4i per cent. Brighton General 201. sh. all pd 4,000 91, Continental Cansolldated lOOl. 603/. pd 1,000 101. City of London .................100/. sh. all pd 1,000 111. Ditto, New 11,000 4/. Ir.. Equitable ... lOO/. sh. 60/. pd ...501. Pd :0,000 It per cent. ,Imperial 800 ss. per cent. Isle of Thatict 951. sh. 201. pd 2,350 61. per cent. Independent 'lOl. sh, all pd 9,000 31. per cent. Phcenix ... 5Ol. sh. 391. pd !moo 4!. per cent. Ratcliff 1001. sh. 801. pd 4,41'0 South Metropolitan 5ll/. sli. 190 P 4 8,100 5/. per cent. United General 5O/. *h. 4111. pd 240 5/. per cent. Warwick 501. sh. 400 101. per cent Wakefield 25/. sh. 11,12'0 3/. Westminster Chartered 6,000 12s. Ditto New 600 Yarmouth 201. sli. 181. pd WATER WdrlKS. 1,800 Os. Birmingham 25/ sh. 251. 1,434 (V. East London lOOl pd . sh. 5,51)0 21 lOs Grand Junction Average 411 I3s. 4d. sh. 2,000 '2l. Kent 100/. sh. 372 10/. Liverpool Bootle 2'201. sh. 1,500 2110 s Now River London Bridge Water A nnui ties 6,486 1/ 151 Mr.nehester and Salford lOO/. sh. 1,000 4 per cent. South Londott lOO/. sh. 8,294 4/. West Middlesex ....Average 13/. 12s. Dd. sh. 1.360 11 14s York Building Co. Lowe Prop lOO/. sh. IRON RAILWAYS. 6,000 Birmingham and Derby ... 9,5163 ... ...... Birmingham and Gloucester ............. 2 101 1 . Id Pd 7,500 Birmingham, Bristol, and Thames J unct ion 15,'00 Bristol and Exeter 1001. sh. 101 d 600 Calcutta and Saugur 5O!. sh. '2l. pd 7,500 Cheltenham and G. Western- 1001. sli. 71 1 . 3,009 Clarence IOW. sh. 1001. Id 12,000 8,000 Dublin and Kilkenny 100/. sh. 24 Exl 60,1)00 Eastern Counties 251. sh. 31. Pd Grand Junction 1001. sit. 95/. it 1 Great North of England 5,030 Great Western IOW. sh. 65/. pd 2,000 Hartlepool 100/. sh. 100/ Pd 44,000 Hull and Selby 10,004 Leeds and Manchester 31:510001 10 per cent. Leicester and 2,1t10 31. per cent. Leeds and Selby... ..... 10 per cent. Ditto Quarter Shares '2sl. pd ze,,,Go London and Brighton 5Ol. sh. 8: Pd 12,000 London and Blackwell 54)1, sh. 31 Pd, 20,000 3 per cent. London and Greenwich 'ol. sh. 201. 1 4 25,000 London and Birmingham ...100/. sh. 901. Pi Ditto Quarter Shares 51. Pd 20,000 London and Southampton ....' 01. sh. 591. Pd Ditto ditto New 7,000 London and Croydon Trunk 00/. sh. VI. pd 7,0tt0 Ditto Scrip 14/. 5h..51. Pd 12,000 London Grand Junction... 5O/. sh. 51. pd 4annadi Sityl ganiThiensgtetOrn....l.o( 154:112.11;:is.tih.t1:1001a°5°111111.1..'piVIld: 10,001 •........ 51 nchester and Hi, mingham 700 sh. 71 . P d North Nlialand MO/ sh. 251. pd Nortlie•-n and Eastern lOl,l sit. q. p d 2,000 Preston and 51/. sh. 3 01 . p d Wy re 29,001 - Routh Eastern and Dover .............. 0 . 71. Pd 1,000 10'. per cent. Stockton and Darlin t .. 100!. eh. 7, on ............. 9,(x)0 'Thames 11w/en 1,400 6,000 W estminster and Greenwich 50/. sh. 2/. p d York and North Midland ...50 . sh. 121. 1 4 ni 1 4,04)0 Albion Copper N F.S. 5/. sh. 311. pel 4,000 11, ss. A 'ten 15/. sh. 121. lOs Pd 11 1 ,000 ........ Anglo Mexican, its. 5/. pm.... 100/. sh. all pd Ditto SubseriittrOn ........................ 901. (0 2,000 1 , 1. Baldnos 10,000 11. 10s Brazilian Imp. les. 5/. pm .05/ sh. 20/. IA 6,11 0 Macanba.s & tocaes United 25/.Bh. 22 1 !. pd 11,000 Ditto St. John Del Rey 21)1. 511• 91 . Pd 10,010 Bolivar Copper Company 201. sh. 200 Pd 10,000 „,„ Ditto Scrip 10!. sh. H. Pd 20,01141 .. ..... British Iron .... 50/. sh. 5 1 0 pal ....... Prlti. , 5l. sh. 411. pd - fill. pd 71/. pd El- Ge g n "l : l3 ra hb l7l ' in i t s i g .g . s A L ss P oc m iation. 2 . sl :2o sl.l l .l . hl s 2h h il . 2 5 1: 1..... Pit td : 0,5.0_ ••• 2,850 31, 00,000 IP l u t i ei l .: 4l il t :::d r t o s ef ' lL A l Cu e ll i . t i a e )° : n . i n il J Y : i.,.. n . 7: i i 5 , m t e : c . : 6 . 1 ) . 11. 4 e 0 '1 1 ! . 1; 4 1 1,1 5 . : 11 : 011 : i P p l i l lt : 6,153 3,006 11,50 C D p i t tt l- o S li c e r W P l Se N r s i . p n jO.OOO T uTio, S. si. 1.-(1 l' f.o lT'e n Es d tt o lt rl 'Aori w ktl i . th Bronze Ticket ....... .............. sh. 1,000 1,500 London ' University WO/. sh. all p a l 70 0 Russoll 25gs. sh. King' College MISCELLANEOUS. 100/, pd 10,000 iss, Australian Agricultural....loo/. sh 2ro ri a 6,000 4/. per cent. Britsh American Land Company,,, 030 . i oa 1001. sh. 284 pd „Tr" ) 4,lllp'ec. cent. Canada Company Loan .............................. City Bonds, 4 per cent........... 15,000 11. os. General Steatil Navigetion ...15/. sh. 13 N /. . taper cent. Ht 1,18011%; Bay Stock .............. 2,000 IL London Corn. Sale Rooms ....... „A v , 7 5h s i i 8,000 . Caoutchouc Company ...... . 0051. sh• V4l. ra New Brunswick Land Company . . .... el t • rid 2,751 5!. per cent. Reversionary lntelestSoc...loo/. sh. lOW. pd 0 a l 51. per cent. ititto N ew 100/. sh. '7O/. Tal .., Tunnel 4000 1 hams 501 - sh, all pd ~,. tis. Van Dv_ nen's Land 14101 . sh. i7l. lad -,, 2.500 41400 gill Copper ... Cata Branca.- Candunza . ifi,jloo 11 Copiapo CoI,IP-' 100 j 80 113 101 100 99a 32! 6; ;.. ) f 2f 181 LIST OF SCOTTISH 30, COMPANIES 8. ' PRICES, JAN. IS3 J3ANKS. 1.5 n0,00 tl. 61. p. rt. nun': at Scotland 83 .. 1 ,. .. 6 2 : 0011 :: : - .1h : : : . ; 301:: a 0wi l .. ] :p41 : 144 1:1 1 4 : 50:5 1 1.... . , 2,000,0 Y I. 51 p. ct. 'Loyal of Scotland 1001 sh. Alija! I ' , Oil. 5 40.0111. ap. ct. British Linen Company lOU ih. 4 ii IA i wi. 3,()00,00t1. G/. p. et. Commercial s.,frist,cons. , o. rt. or, tional 2,000,0001. ill. p. ct. Glasgow Union 2501. sh. 50/. pd iio/ 1,000,1 X 0/. 4 p. ct. Western of Scotland INSUBANCE COMPANIES. 25 1 .000 sh. e 4 p. ct. Scottish Urtioti - ,5041 01 p. ct. Hercules joe,ooo sp. ct. Insurance Co. of Scotland —Jul. ,h, ci pd ~ - 50.009 6p. et. North British 200/.lh. la f i d jtii, 1,000 s p. ct. Caledonian Fire 100/. sh. 104 pd js,tlo, 5.000 t` p. et. Edinburgh Life 1001. sh. 10/. pi 14/ lOs 100,000 31 p. ct. West of Scotland MISCELLANEOUS 101 . Pd 74 411 4,81 0 Edin. and (P.a.. Un. Canal 501. oh. all pd 94/ Ditto Allocated 1011. sh. all pd efil 5,400 s per cent. Etllnh. JoSnt Stock NVater 95/. :h. a ll p d tu t . Carron Iron company 2501.1h. all pd 461. to 0;0 3 per cent. fl.dinbnrgh & Leith Glass 20/. sh. 16/. pd il. I,ooosh 15 p... , / tont, ifibotts Iron I. ou n der y 4.500 10 per cant. F,ditibtirS4 coM 0 4.' 25/. :h. all pd SQ/ . "'°"' sh 381 . Pd 44 / , 4,450 10 per cent. Glasgow Gas . ... , , ~,,,,,,,,,.„2/, sh. all pd gli 750 7i per cont. Leith Coal figs to 4 :h. all pd 451. 1.106 Edinburgh snd Dalkeith Iteway...so/. sh 601. 3.000 spa cad. Lquitabis Loan Cowpany, "14 ill. 91, pd la MORI AND LINDLEY'S CLASSICAL QUARTETT CONCERTS. The second of these concerts took place on Wednesday evening, at Willis's Rooms, King -street, St. James's. The fullness of the concert-room, and the brilliant and elegant ap pearance of the company assembled, we were glad to observe, fully attested the celebrity the efforts of the professional gen tlemen mentioned have already ecquired in the musical and fashionable world. In our humble opinion, however, quartette are not the description of compositions suited to a public con cert-room, and are heard to f a r gr eater advantage in private, where the pleasure arising from them to the performers them selves stim u l a t es t h e i r exert i ons , unc h ec k e d by the conviction that they arc standing in the presence of a critical auditory. Still, on the present occasion, the pieces of this character, included in the programme, were so well played, allowing for the defects resulting from the cause alluded to, that they were listened to with extreme satisfaction, and the playfulness of style, and finished harmonic s of the quartett and quintett, seemed to convey as much gratification to the hearers, end even more, than the elaborate and varied symphony, or the brilliant an d no i s y over t ure . Th e conc ert opened with a quartett of Oaslow, for two violins, tenor, violincello, and double bass, played by Mori, Tolbccque, Moralt, Lindley, and Dragonetti. With the exception of the andante, there was little interest for the general hearer in the trickery and intri cacy of this quartett ; the movement alluded to, ho-,vever, comprised some very pretty melody, and the solo for the violincello, delightfully played by the veteran Lindley, was much admir e d. R oss i n i' s voca l quartett, from Guillaume Tell, In questa navicella, followed. It was accompanied by a select orch estra , an d sung b y Mi ss F an ny Wyndham, Miss Woodham, Mr. Brizzi, and Mr. J. Parry, jun. Contrasted with the delicacy of the quartett playing, by which it had been preceded, it seemed to us a very coarse and unfinished perfor mance. The l a dies sa n g ver y re spectably ; but Mr. Brizzi, although expressive and tasteful in some parts, in others was much too v oc if erous t o b e cons i s t en t with right feeling. Mozart's quintett in E flat, for two violins, two tenors, and violincello, was well played; it is throughout light and ele gant, and a beautiful composition for the chamber, but was not particularly effecrive. Deli! vieni, non Larder, from Mozart's Figaro, the next piece, was beautifully sung by Mademoiselle Scheroni, the youthful Prima Donna of the Opera Beira. She possesses exquisite taste, and a full toned, melodious voice, peculiarly rich in the lower notes. She obtained a well. merited share of applause. A trio of Corelli, played by two violincellos, ( Lindley and Lavenu) and a double bass, (Dra gonetti), was deservedly encored. The old author appeared to receive new beauties from the exquisite style of the performance. The first part of the concert concluded with Mozart's " L'Addio," sung with great taste and feeling by Miss Fanny Wyndham. The Second Part opened with Beethoven's splendid quintett for piano -forte, oboe, clarionet, horn and bassoon. The performers were, Mrs. An derson, Messrs. G. Cooke, Lazarus, Platt, and Denman. The piano -forte playing of Mrs. Anderson was in a style that left us nothing to wish for, and the accompaniments were beautifully sustained by the gentlemen mentioned. In fact it went as well in every respect as at the wind instrument concerts at Hanover-square, and was by f ar th e mos t e ff ect i ve pi ece o f th e whole selection. The andante movement was deliciously played. Mr. J. Parry, jun., in Webbe's " The Mansion of Peace : " appeared to b e somew h at def i c i ent i n energy. Hi s voice is of good quality an d hi s taste correct, b ut t h ere i s a want of variety in his style. The song, however, is rather a heavy one, and does n ot a ff or d muc h opportun i ty for display. Beethoven's quartett in A major, for two violins, tenor, and violoncello, reserved till near the conclusion of the concert, we suppose as a bonn e b ouc h e , was, w i t h out except i on, t h e best of the stringed compositions. All the players seemed not only tofeel what they we re a b out , b ut to exert t h emse l ves to give effect to their conceptions, unaware of the presence of a large and eager auditory. The air with variations, afforded to every performer an opportunity of showing his skill in turn, and no one declined to avail himself of it. The whole was most delightfully and effectively played. Weber's vocal quar tett, " Over the Dark Blue Waters," from Oberon, was given in as villanous a style as it is possible to conceive; indeed one voice of the " Quartetto" was left out altogether, whether by particular desire" we k now not . A s, h owever , t h e audi ence were occupied in quitting the room, or adjusting their dresses, at the time of the singing, it was unobserved or little attended to. There are two more concerts to come, and the next, we observe, is fixed for the let of March, at which Ma dame Dulcken, the eminent Pianiate, is to perform. PHILALETHEAN SOCIETY. On Tuesday evening a meeting of this Society was held at Tessier's Rooms, in Drury-lane; on which occasion, Mr. J a mes Rees delivered a lecture on the Power and Progress of Knowledge. The Learned Lecturer commenced his observa tions by a rapid and eloquent glance of the original state of the population. It is not (he said) the absence of materials that would constitute poverty, but the absence of mind—the absence of power to perceive the relations of objects, and the adaptation of means to ends. And while plunged in this state of destitution, of ignorance and poverty, we have invariably found that it was a state of unhappiness. This fact proves to us a startling truth, that if we would make mankind happy—if we would make the savage a sage--and the wild man a philo sopher—it must be only accomplished by pouring the light of science round his pathway. Knowledge in every age has se cured happiness ; and wherever the man of genius has pursued his studies beneath the blight of poverty—by the glimmering light of his solitary taper—passing through the wide world unnoticed and unknown—he has insured for himself an eter nal and ever-enduring boon—he has lighted a flame which can never be quenched—he has given forth an impetus which must for ever be felt, is the progression and advancement he has made in science and truth. But not alone in happiness is it felt and acknowledged, but also in its glory : where its truths have been propagated, and its influence felt, it has never failed to raise the character of individuals and nations. Contemplate in the mirror of history those mighty cities:where now reigns nothing but the sorrow of desolation and the silence of the dead. Rome, eloquence, ce Greece, Athens, have left behind names o f i mper i s h a bl e splend our ; t h ese names , em bl azone d on t h e b anner of truth, must incite us onward t o v i c t or y — to a tr i ump h , bl oodless, but yet s ure , s l ow, b ut yet en d ur i ng, whose influences will be felt In a t o t a l renovat i on o f society. The lecturer, with great took a glance of the state of England, and the of f r o tghre prospectse s s of tht opened knowledge a inthis n o country, o andu rview ega. He r v e a vi s . ketch looked forward to the period when knowledge should cover the earth. We have seen the first glimmerings of the sun as it rose in its unborrowed glory, and tinted the scenes around, till the hill and the valley, the mountain and the dale, glowed with living fire ; and we have watched its progress till it burst in its full effulgence on the landscape. Even so shall that sun of knowledge travel hi the greatness of its strength, diffusing beams of happiness around, scattering its light to illume and reanimate, and pour a precious balsam on the wounded and suffering spirit. And this knowledge can never die : it is a quenchless flame, an unwasted legacy, in the possession of which man burst the fetters of ignorance, and stands forth in all the majesty of a God. The lecture was well attended, and appeared to give general satisfaction. We understand that the Society purpose holding a discussion on Phrenology in the course of this week. During the lecture, Mr. Rees appeared to labour under severe indisposition. POLAND. We have much pleasure in giving insertion to the annexed letter, addressed by the Palatine Ostrowski, late Commander of the Patriotic National Guard of Warsaw, to Mr. O'Connell, as Chairman of the Meeting held at the Crown and Anchor, on the 29th November la►t, in commemoration of the glorious but unfortunate Polish revolution : " ADDRESS OF TOE PALATINE OSTROWSKI TO MR. O ' CONNELL, AS CHAIRMAN OP THE MEETING HELD AT THE CROWN AND ANCHOR ON THE 29TH NOVEMBER LAST, IN COMMEMORA- TIoN or THE POLISH REVOLUTION. " Sir—Member of the Diet of revolutionized Poland, and native of that land which is persecuted by the atrocious despotism of the great spoiler of the North, proud of sharing the proscription, the exile, and the affections of my numerous companions in misfortune, 1 experienced, like them, a lively feeling of consolation in learning that the illustrious advocate of the rights of the oppressed and of nations, that you, Sir, had so recently raised your elo wont voice in favour of our holy cause ! Yes, that voice, which has caused our hearts to throb with emotion of gratitude toward you, who are so worthy a representative of powerful and free Albion—that voice will find its echo not only in the con victions of our friends, and of all who can appreciate what is noble, just, and for the true interests of mankind, but, more, it will make itself audible as an echo of our griefs, as a warn ino. (perchance as a reproach) to those over-timorous con sciences, which a spirit of narrow egotism and forgetfulness of the princ i p les of a sound p olic y have hitherto ke p t silent. Thanks, then, be to you, Sir, fur having presided so nobly, and with enthusiasm so touching., at the last commemoration of our immortal night of the 29th of November, 1830. Continue your noble labours in this glorious work of justice— of universal interest—this work so worthy of your great heart And you will continue them, our presaging hearts by anticipation assure us, with that perseverance which i s your c haracteristic, and which renews to the world the olden virtue of a Cato. By proclaiming aloud the necessity of humbling our common foes, by incessantly demanding the re storation of entire Poland to its primitive independence and liberty, you will have worthily crowned the labours which have so nobly filled up your career. H av e the kindness at the same time, Sir, as President of our profou w n l d in gratitude jnined th to eir the voices honour le onou tr n - t h e patriotic Meeting of the 2 9th of November lost, to commu nicate generouselpressi onof Englishmen In the annals of our history , and our national affection is yours for ever. "The Palatine ANTOINE OSTROWSKI , General and late Commander of th e N at i ona l G uar d of Warsaw. ti Paris, Rue des Petits Aug us ti n , 17, D ec . 10, 1837. " a t n h d e 1:1301ne oar's, Your name, Sir, and theirs, ar c h ence f or th enrolled HORRID ACCIDENT.--On Thursday, several of the inhabitants of Chorlce were attracted by screams from the h ouse pf Mrs. Mary Bamber, a widow, aged 87 years, On entering the dwelling the poor woman was found to be one body which was put out, l eav i ng h er t h e most h orr id s pectacle. of mela The flesh was burned away from her face and head,leaving her bones bare, notwithstanding which she lived for up wards of four hours, calling on her husband, who had on ly been dead a few days, to come to her.—Preston Chron. A LEAP EXTRAORDINARY.—Sa m . Scott, the celebrated American jumper, has now made a most extraordi nroy jump —viz., from the house of Mr. Jones, at Warrington, to the treadmill at Kirkdale.—Liverpool Paper. PROTESTS AGAINST' FHE THIRD READING OF THE CANADA GOVERNMENT BILL. DISSENTIENT :- 1. Because it appears by a despatch from the Earl of Go ford, dated the 23d of December 1837, th7t the measures adopted for putting down the revolt in Lower Canada have been crowned with entire success; that the principal instiga tors and leaders have been killed, taken, or torced into exile ; that the revolutionary press is no longer in existence ; that the disposition of the Roman Catholic clergy is favourable ; that numerous offers of service have been made by large por tions of the population in various parts of the province, to enrol themselves i❑ volunteer corps fur the defence of the Government ; and that loyal addresses are pouring in from the French Canadian population is all parts of the province, expressing their fidelity to the Queen and their attachment to the British connexion, and strongly reprobating the selfish ambition and treasonable designs which have ruthlessly involved one of the fairest portions of the country in all the horrors of civil war. 2. Because, therefore, the averment in the preamble of the Bill, that in the present state of the province of Lower Canada the House of Assembly cannot he called together without serious detriment to the interests of that province, is not only not supported by facts, but negatived by the inference to be drawn from the latest facts of which the House is in possession. 3. Because the conduct of the House of Assembly being the alleged ground of the Bill, and certain Members of that Assembly who had mainly influenced its proceedings having brought upon their country all the horrors of civil war, it is not just to suspend the Constitution, of the province with a view to its alteration by an Act of the Imperial Parliament, without first dissolving the House of Assembly, and thus affording to the people the opportunity of showing that they have with drawn their confidence from such of their late representatives as have proved unworthy of it, and that they do not approve the acts of the House of Assembly which are deemed to justify the Bill. 4. Because the Bill gives to the Governor and Council power to make, with certain exceptions, all such laws and or dinances as the Legislature of Lower Canada, as now consti tuted, is empowered to make, and thereby places at the dis posal of the Governor and Council all the monies heretofore appropriated by the House of Assembly, as well as all the monies heretofore appropriated by the Crown ; thus making much more extensive alterations in the Constitution when order is restored than the Executive Council deemed it expe dient to recommend when agitation distracted the province, and paralysed its Government. 5. Because, from the experience of last year, there is reason to fear that this measure will not only revive the hostile feel ings of those who hare hitherto opposed the Government, and increase their means of agitating the province, but at the same time excite the strongest disapprobation on the part of those who arc most attached to British connexion, and who most reprobate the past proceedings of the House of Assembly. 6. Because the events which have taken place on the fron tier of the United States show the expediency of effecting at the earliest period a permanent, and therefore a conciliatory, settlement of all questions relating to Lower Canada, and the Bill interposes a long interval of despotism before any propo sition for such settlement can be entertained. 7. Because it is impossible honestly so to modify the Elec toral Franchise and the Electoral Districts in Lower Canada as to deprive the French population of that province of the power of electing the majority of the Legislative Assembly ; and, therefore, any new Assembly which may be called toge ther hereafter must be elected by a constituency essentially the same as that which elected the present Assembly, whose con duct is alleged to justify the Bill. 8. Because it is consistent with reason and experience that the long arbitrary discontinuance of the use of a Parliament will, when that Parliament is at last called together, greatly increase instead of diminishing the difficulty of carrying on the Government of which it is a part. 9. Because the Bill thus postpones the calling of a new Parliament to a period necessarily mote unfavourable than the present, and, occupying the interval by a coercive despotism, tends at once to alienate the affections of the people of Lower Canada, to engage the sympathy of the people of the United States in their favour, and to bring upon this country the ac cumulated evils of civil and of foreign war. 10. Because, if it be necessary to make alterations in the constitution of Lower Canada, Parliament is already in pos session of ample information, the result of various recent in quiries, upon which, collected in times of tranquillity, it would be much safer, after mature deliberation, to legislate, than upon new opinions to be collected from parties still under the exasperation of civil contest; and to suspend the Consti tution for more than two years for the purpose of gathering such opinions upon the nature and extent of the reform as sumed to be required, is calculated to create agitation where it is most desirable to re-establish tranquil habits under settled and free Government. ELLENBOROUGII. For the 6th, 7th, Bth, 9th, and 10th reasons, BROUGHANL February 8, 1838. EARL FITZWILLIAM'S PROTEST AGAINST THE THIRD READING OF THE CANADA GOVERNMENT BILL. On Saturday se'enight a protest was entered upon the journals of tho House of Lords by Earl Fitzwilliam against the third reading of the Canada Government Bill. Lord Brougham afterwards signed it : " DISSENTIENT, " First,—Because it must be presumed that the constitu tional rights conferred upon the people of Lower Canada by the British Legislature were given them with the full know ledge that the House of Assembly in that province would, and with the intent that it might thereby be enabled to exer cise that controul over the Executive Power which the Com mons of Great Britain are, by their undoubted privileges, enabled to exercise over the Executive Power in the Mother Country. " Secondly,—Because this measure deprives the people of Lower Canada, not only of the rights which were so given them by the British Legislature, but of the rest of the Con stitution which they had previously enjoyed. " Thirdly,—Because the Bill being founded upon the as sumption that such privation is just, it appears to us that such assumption is erroneous. " Fourthly,—Because it appears to us, in determining the justice or injustice of a penal measure against a whole commu. nity, the Legislature is not confined by those technical rules which govern courts of law, but is bound to institute a larger inquiry ; and that therefore it is necessary not merely to refer to the recent acts of that community, but to examine into the causes of those acts, and to ascertain their origin, which can only be effected through a careful investigation of the succes sive steps by which the accused party has proceeded, and of the circumstances by which it has been gradually led on to those proceedings which furnished the immediate grounds of this penal measure. .Fifthly,—Because such investigation has satisfied us that the origin of those proceedings is to be found in the early mal administration of the colony by those branches of the Govern ment which were more immediately connected with the mother country ; and therefore it is not just to deprive the colony, even for a time, of its political rights, upon the alleged ground of recent misconduct. " Sixthly,—Because it appears to us that this is only the first of a series of measures which may involve the nation in great difficulties ; an opinion countenanced by the admission made in debate, that her Majesty's Ministers were prepared to apply to Parliament for an increase of our military forces, in which admission is obviously involved the further admission that even, according to the expectations of the authors of this measure, it may not improbably occasion an armed resistance in the colony. Seventhly,_Because, finally, we are determined not to incur the heavy responsibility of a measure which may involve our country in civil war. ( Signed) " FITZWILLIAM. " BROUGHAM." UDINIORE.—INCENDIARISM.—Between 11 and 12 o'clock on Sunday night week an extensive:and alarming fire broke out on the premises of Mr. John Woodhams, of this parish; the diabolical act, there is every reason to believe, was that of one or more infamous incendiaries. A barn, stabling, and out-houses, have all fallen a prey to the de structive element, together with three loads of sheaves, some nine quarters of thrashed corn, four fine and valuable horses, and three pigs. A labourer named George Ilookham, who was in the habit of sleeping in the barn, has been apprehended on suspicion of the foul deed. STATE OF THE RIVER..—Wc regret to state that the Thames is in a very bad state, and the navigation was con siderably impeded on Friday by the vast quantities of ice on its surface, which came up the pool with the flood tide in the afternoon in extensive fields, and where there was any consi derable quantity of shipping which formed an obstruction to the passage of the icebergs, the stream was occasionally co vered with ice from side to side. The ice prevented a great many barges and other craft from getting ou t i n tome parts of the river near the shores, and it is feared if the frost con tinues two or three days longer, that the navigation will be again stopped. The frost, during the previous night, had been most intense, and accompanied by a keen easterly wind, which increased on Friday to a perfect gale. It blew in gusts and squalls during the whole of Friday, and in the evening the hurricane was tremendous. The river was like a rough sea when the tide ebbed, and the blast, which was never exceeded in keenness, was most severely felt. In many of the reaches the ships under weigh were obliged to bring up, and frequent collisions occurred—iadeed, in the Pool and the vicinity of Greenwich and Deptford, the damage done by collisions was very great; they were of the ordinary nature, and there is no occasion to particularise them. A good deal of ice appeared above bridge, where the river was in the same rough state as bclow. The steamers going down the river on Friday had great difficulty in making their way against the wind and tide, and were frequently put be. The long continuance of severe weather, and the want of employment alongshore, have produced great distress among the working classes. After the death of Mrs. Mary Barnes, who died lately at Eckington, Worcestershire, there were found in her boles, drawers, and wardrobes, 542 gown-pieces, and 100 made-up gowns, and a proportionate stock of shawls. The same old lady had generally a dozen cats, and a large stock of rabbits. It is a custom hi the south of France to carry the body of a deceased priest to the grave with his face uncovered. A few days ago, as they were thus conducting the corpse of the Abbe Gounon through the streets of Toulouse, the sigh t had such an effect upon the Abbe d'Auzat, Librarian of the College, that he was struck with a fit of apoplexy and died instantly, SPRING ASSIZES. CROWN OFFICE, FEB. IG. Days and places appointed for holding the Spring Assizes, 1538, viz : WESTERN CIRCUIT. The Right Hon. THOMAS Lord DENMA N, Lord Chief Justice; the Right Hon. Sir JOHN BEILNAS,I. BOSA N(All ET. • SOUtltarSpiGH—Thursday, March 1, at the Castle of Winchester. Wiltshire—Wednesday, March 7, at New Sarum. Dorsetshire—Tuesday, March 13, at Dorchester. Devonshire—Saturday, March 17, at the Castle of Exeter ; City of Exeter, the same day, at the Guildhall, Exeter. Cornwall—Saturday, March 24, at Launceston. Somersetshire—Saturday, March 31, at the Castle of Taunton. HOME CIRCUIT. The Right Hon. Sir Nrcitor.As CONY NGHAM TINOAL, Knt., Lord Chief Justice; the Right Hon. Sir Jourt VA ucHAN, one of the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas. Hertfordshire—Wednesday, Feb. 28, at Hertford. Essex—Monday, March 5, at Chelmsford. Kent—Monday, March 12, at Maidstone. Sussex—Monday, March 19, at Lewes. Surrey—Monday, March 26, at Kingston-iin,n- Thames. MIDLAND CIRCUIT. Mr. Justice PARK ; Mr. Justice LITTLE DA 11. Nurtha:nptonshire—Monday, Feb. 26, at Northampton. Rutlandshire—Friday, March 2, at Oakham. Lincolnshire—Saturday, March 3, at the Castle of Lincoln. City of Lincoln—The same day, at the City of Lincoln. Nottinghamshire—Thursday, March 8, at Nottingham. Town of Nottingham--The same day, at the Town of Nottingham. Derbyshire—Tuesday.. March 13, at Derby. Leicestershire—Saturday, March 17, at the Castle of Leicester. Borough of Leicester—The same day, at the Borough of Leicester. Warwickshire—Thursday, March 2 : 2, at Warwick. City of Coventry—The same day, at the City of Coventry. NORFOLK CIRCUIT. The Right Hon. Sir JAMES PARSE; Mr. Baron BOLLAND. Buckinghamshire—Tuesday, March 6, at Aylesbury. Bedfordshire—Saturday, March 10, at Bedford. Huntingdonshire—Tuesday, March 13, at Huntingdon. Cambridgeshire—Thursday, March 15, at Cambridge. Suffolk—Wednesday, March 21, at Bury St. Edmund's. Norfolk—Thursday, March 29, at the Castle of Norwich. City of Norwich—The same day, at the Guildhall of the said City of Norwich. OXFORD CIRCUIT. Mr. Baron ALDERSON : Mr. Baron GURNEY. Berkshire--Saturday, Feb. 24, at Reading. Oxfordshire—Wednesday, Feb. 28, at Oxford. Worcestershire—Tuesday, March 6, at Worcester. City of Worcester—The same day, at the City of Worcester. Staffordshire—Saturday, March 10, at Stafford. Shropshire—Saturday, March 17, at Shrewsbury. Herefordshire—Friday, March 23, at Hereford. Momouthshire—Wednesday, March 28, at Monmouth. Gloucestershire—Saturday, March 31, at Gloucester. City of Gloucester—The same day, at the City of Gloucester. NORTHERN CIRCUIT. Mr. Justice PATTESON ; Mr. Justice CoLERIDGX. Westmoreland—Saturday, Feb. 17, at Appleby. Cumberland—Tuesday, Feb. 20, at Carlisle. Northumberland—Saturday, Feb. 24, at the Castle of Newcastle• upon-Tyne. Town of Newcastle-upon-Tyne—The same day, at the Guildhall of New castle-upon-Tyne. Durham—Wednesday, Feb. at Durham. Yorkshire—Saturday, March 3, at at the Castle of York. City of York—The same day, at the Guildhall of the City of York. North Lancashire—Saturday, March 17, at Lancaster. South Lancashire—Tharsday, March 22, at Liverpool. DISTURBANCES AT KINGSTON-ON-THAMES.--• Wednesday afternoon the inhabitants of this quiet town wit nessed a serious fracas, which terminated unfortunately in bloodshed. For some time past the workmen on the London and Southampton Railway have been divided in feeling. owing to some degree of jealousy felt by the ordinary la bourers towards some labourers from Scotland and the North of England, who have been employed of late to lay down the rails. For weeks past scarcely a day has elapsed but some unlucky Wight with a broken head has been borne into the town to undergo surgical examination, On Wednes day, however, things assumed a very serious character. A , large body of the rival parties came into collision, and the Northerns being in the minority were forced, after manfully standing their ground for some time, to retreat into the town- of Kingston. They there sought refuge in the Adam an' Eve public house, which, notwithstanding the interference of the police, would unquestionably have been pulled down bad not the authorities deemed it necessary to put a summary stop to these proceedings. The Riot Act was read by the Mayor, after which the conquerors retired, and the dis turbance ceased. To prevent any fresh attack, the poli' were ordered strictly to guard the public-house during the night, and to escort the besieged from the town. MURDER.—Accounts from Montevillien, Sein 3 Inferieur, dated the 14th of January, state, a horrible m urder was committed yesterday morning, in the hainlet of Mar Carel t near Bolbec. A man named Lecompte, turned of 73 years (?r age, after a violent discussion about money matters w ith 1; 2 : wife, a woman of 55 years of age, struck ber v olently on 1 . head with an i ron crow b ar ; t h e wretc h e d v i ct i m of his 00"1 fell dead from h er c h a i r on t h e spot . I n or d er to obliterat , the traces and evidences of his crime, Lecompte dragged ta l body to the chimney-place, and having placed the fracturou head upon the fire for p a sufficient time, went out and told the neighbours, with pretended alarm, that ho had just found his wife fallen into the fire, and that drunkenness had doubtless been the cause of her death. Lecompte, notwithstanding the plausible story, was arrested in consequence of some suspicious circumstances in his manner and answers, and the affair is now undergoing judicial investigation. On the crime being made public, the Procureur du Roi of Havre immediately proceeded to the house, and instituted a court of inquiry into the cir cumstances of the case on the spot. It was a curious cir cumstance, that both husband and wife had been married three times. AFFAIR OF HONOUR AT BRUSSELs._In con sequence of some discussion relating to places at the theatre, Lieut. Belson, of the Rifle Brigade, was assailed and struck with a stick on the hack of his head, not only in the most un provoked manne r , b u t w h en tota ll y o ff hi s guar d , by a Pei gian half-pay officer. Although the aggressing individ offered to apologise upon th e f o ll ow i ng morn i ng f or this out rage, Lieut. B e l son , w i t h t h e sp i r i t an d proper feeling be coming the gallant corps of which he is a member, reject ed t this offer, and insisted upon more positiv e re p arat i on . A oi"._ . ing therefore took place on Tuesday m orn i ng , w hich tert:n ! nated in Lieut. Belson (whose pistol mi sse d fi re ) receiv in g his adversary's ball in the thigh. The wound, though severe!, is not dangerous. The alternative to whi c h M r . Belson found himself reduced and the issue are the m ore un f or t un ate, sin ce his adversary subsequently declared th at h e h a d struc k him by mistake. On Thursday evening a very prolons,red inquiry t ook place at the Hero of Wat er l oo T avern, 'Waterloo-road, 00 view of the body of Mr. Alexander Stewart, aged 54, a gen tleman holding an appointment in the Custom-house, Who was discovered dead, with considerable marks of violence on his person, at the bottom of the steps on the Surrey side of Waterloo-bridge, at an early hour on Tuesday morning last. There was a deep and extensive wound on the left side of the , head, the left eye and nose were also severely injured. The surgeon was of opinion that the death of the deceased wee produced by the severe scalp wound described occasioning concussion of the brain. The Jury returned the following special verdict :—" That the deceased was found dead, wits extensive marks of violence on his person, but to what they were attributable there was no evidence to prove." MOUNTAINS OF HERRINGS.-The Pilote dtt Calvados announces that the vessels engaged in tke c od fisheries at Newfoundland have ascertained that there are in the same waters such immense shoals of herrings, that they may be called sub-marine mountains of fish I They also state that the fish are larger and of finer quality than any that have hitherto been caught either at the Orkneys or on the coast of Holland. It is added that several vessels will be sent from Granville and other ports of the Channel to explore this new fishery as soon as the season opens. PATENT LEVER WATCHES, With silver double-bottom cases £6 6 0 With silver hunting cases 6 16 0 This celebrated constiuctien (the most accurate on which a watch can be made) is offered, with the latest improvements, i. c. the detached escapement, jewelled in four holes, sapped hand to mark the seconds, hard enamel dial, and maintaining power to continue going while winding up, at the above price, by T. COX SAVORY'S, Working Silver and Goldsmith, 47, Cornhill, London, (Seven doors from Gracechureh-street.) N.B.—Second-hand Watches purchased in exchange. BIRTHS. On the 12th inst., the lady of C. Pesball, Esq., of a daughter. On the 11th inst., at lilackh path Park, the w.fe cf the Het'. Fenn, of a son. On the IRh inst., at Walthamstow, Mrs. Henry F. Gadsden, of a daughter. Oa the 10th inst., in Belgrave-square, the lady of John Dra m " mond, Esq., of a son. On the 11th inst., at Mr. Wilson's, Wandsworth-common , th e widow of his son William, of a daughter. On thel2th inst., Mrs. G eorge T ongs, of Meellenburgh-square' of a daughter. On the 13th inst., the lady of IL Merceron, Esq., of I-Lackner road, Bethnal-green, of a son. On the 11th inst., in Chester-terrace, the lady of James Leman, Esq., of a son. MARE At St. John's Episcopal Chap R el I , E D dinburgh, on the 9 th inst., John, eldest son of It. K . Rotherham, Esq., of Coventry, to Eliza , eldest daughter of A. Clapperto t E • sq., of P rinces -street, Thos. On the 12th inst., at Ogbourne St. Georffe's, Wilts , Jones, of King's Arms-yard, Colemaw-street, solicitor, to Ja r: youngest daughter of the late Mr! Robert Canning, of Whitetie near Marlborough, Wilts. P • " •treet, Edin- DIED. On the 9th inst., at Greenwich, John Restall, Esq., aged 74. o f On the B t h i nst., Maria, wife of Lieutenant-Colonel Trickey, Richmond-place, Brighton. On the Bth inst., at Layton, Ess e x, Stilli n gfleet Rayner, Esq., late of the Ordnance-oflice, Tower, aged 75. On the 7th inst., - at Liverpool, aged 85, Mrs. Moss, relic t of T. Moss, Es q . On the Bth inst., M. G. Da Costa, Esq., of T o rrington-squ are, aged 69. On the 9th inst., Mary Ann, wife of Mr. Wm. Stone, of Pan ton-street, Haymarket, aged 9 4. On the Ist inst., at Walworth, Jane, third daughter of the late J. Idle, Esq. °P , the 7th inst., at Old Burlington-street, Richard Pollen, Esq'' aged 52. At Pau, in the Pyrenees, on the 3d inst., aged 35, Lord Georg* Hervey, second son of the Marquis of Bristol. ---- London ; Printed and I'ublished by MURDO YOUNG, of Ni• 112, Strand, at The Sun Office, No. 11 0 , Strand, in tl►e count, 0/ Altddlesex.—Munday, February 19, le3B.